Rush Township has agreed to settle a pair of lawsuits, including one with a township police officer.

On a unanimous measure, the township's board on Thursday agreed to settle the lawsuit with Corey Herring in the amount of $95,000.Supervisors agreed to authorize board Chairman Shawn Gilbert to execute the agreement and release 2 payments of $47,500 to officer Herring through the township's payroll system, with all the regular payroll deductions. The board also agreed that the payments will be paid in a week from the time Herring signs the release, and that once the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Risk Management Association sends the township the money, then a week from that point, the township has to give Herring the first payment.Gilbert also had to authorize the agreement and release the money that the risk management association will give to the township, to guarantee that the $45,000 that the risk management association is paying will be paid to officer Herring with all the appropriate withholding through payroll.Additionally, the $47,500 that the township is responsible for has to be paid to Herring sometime between Jan. 1-15 of 2018, including that $47,500 through payroll, and with all the appropriate withholdings.Herring had previously filed a lawsuit stating that he was wrongly dismissed.He had been a full-time officer until he was furloughed. He was later rehired as a part-time officer, and is currently an officer for the township.Also on Thursday, supervisors agreed to settle a lawsuit with Mark and Beth Sabo.That issue pertained to water runoff, and the board agreed to pay $7,000.